Improved scrubbing-brush



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; sents a front view of said brush. Fig. 3`rep- .n rl-he nature of our invention consistsin comfor performing the operation of scrubbing.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALoIs SCHWEIZER AND-GEORGE JANSEN, or CLEVELAND, oHro.

"IMPROVED scRuBBlNe-B-RUSH.

Speoilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,309, dated August 26, 1862.

Be it" known that we, ALoIs SCHWEIZER and GEORGE JANsEN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrubbing-Brushes'; and we do hereby de- 'exact description of the construction and oper'- ation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- 4 Figure l represents a side View of said brush whenit is used for scrubbing. Fig. 2 repre' resents a side view of the same when it is used for wiping or drying the floor.

bining with a scrubbing-brush an elastic rubber at such an angle to the brush that either of the two may assume a perpendicular posi tion on the iioorywhen the handle of the implement is turned around its axis while said handle is held in the vposition most convenient To enable others skilledin the art to make and use o ur invention, we will proceed to de- A represents'the handle of the implement;` B, the block to which the brnshand rubber The brushes J y are secured to thehead H, the latter being fastened to the block B by means of screws. The brush may thus be detached from the block when worn down and be replaced at pleasure by a new one. The

rubber C is inserted in the'upper edge, I, of A the angular block 'B and lsecured therein by screws or otherwise, and the relativeposition of said rubber to the brush, as indicated by the red lines a c, c b, and d 1, is such that the angle a c d is equal to the angle d c b; that Consequently when the handle is held in the position represented in Fig. 1, where the brush stands perpendicular and the entire face of the l brush restsvonthe floor, said handle, on being e turned on'its axis d d to the position repre- ;sented in Fig. 3, the rubber' C will assume a perpendienlar position, the handle being constantly in the position most convenient for performing the work. The object of this com,4 bination is that when the brush has been used for scrubbing the door the implement may bey turned to the position represented in Fig." 3,

and by operating the rubber on the door thelsuds are moved forward and awayV from the part scrubbed, and the ii'oor is effectually--.

cleansed, wiped, and dries readily.

'The rubber may be secured in the block by means of screwsvfpassirg through vvslotsin said rubber, so that thelatter may b e adjusted are constructed. and arranged substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein described. v

ALOIS SCHWEIZER. GEORGE JANSEN.

v Witnesses: Y

JOHN G. FAY, Jr., HENRY SCHNEIDER. 

